Mission:

To provide a quiet, peaceful and safe working environment for the CLRC staff and other researchers to read, learn, and conduct research work.

Purpose:

To collect and store both updated legal and Non-legal information relevant to the work of the commission and its staff and to have that information readily available to the users in a timely and efficient manner. 

Objective:

In order to attain the above mission and purpose, Library services will pursue the following objectives: Information Registration, Cataloguing and shelving. The CLRC library keeps more than 5,000 materials in both hard copies and soft copies. This includes:

• Constitutional and Law Reform Final Report ;

• Former Law Reform Commission Reports and Issues papers ;Discussion Papers;

• Monographs ;

• Constitutional Directive Reports;

• PNG Law Reports;

• PNG Constitution ;

• Other Legal documents and non-legal documents;

• Acts of Parliament and Regulations;

• National Gazettal Notices;

• Gender Equality Disability and Social Inclusive ( GEDSI) ;

• Newspapers – The National, Post Courier, Sunday Chronicles;

• Magazines ;

• Country law reports; and many more.

The CLRC library is critical in supporting the lawyers and researchers in their research work on law reform matters. Some of the key functions of the library are as follows:

• Book Lending;

• Self-Reading ;

• Scanning Documents;

• Attending to Lawyers and Researchers research requests;

• Provide daily newspapers

• Provide link to other Constitutional and Law Reform Commission

• Media tracking of issues in the country.

Apart from CLRC staff the, library is also open to external stakeholders such as students, researchers and academics but only after securing approval from the Secretary.